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Outsmarting Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens: Role of Genomics

New CDC blog post: Outsmarting antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, by Marta Gwinn, CDC Office of Public Health Genomics and guest blogger Clifford McDonald, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, NCEZID, CDC

Recent insights

Disentangling human tolerance and resistance against HIV
Regoes R, et al. PLoS Biol 2014; 12(9): e1001951.

A systematic analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters in the human microbiome reveals a common family of antibiotics
Donia MS, et al. Cell. 2014;158(6):1402-14.
Comment:
Mining the microbiome for medicines: Set a thief...
The Economist, Sep 20, 2014.

Infection control in the multidrug-resistant era: tending the human microbiome
Tosh PK, McDonald LC. Clin Infect Dis 2012;54(5):707-13.

Association of antibiotics in infancy with early childhood obesity
Bailey LC, et al. JAMA Pediatr, Sep 29, 2014.

Sequence-specific antimicrobials using efficiently delivered RNA-guided nucleases
Citorik RJ, et al. Nat Biotechnol, Sep 21, 2014.
Comment:
Battling superbugs with gene-editing system
Trafton A. Phys.Org, Sep 21, 2014.

Discovery of modulators of HIV-1 infection from the human peptidome
Munch J, et al. Nat Rev Microbiol 2014; 12: 715–722.

Antimicrobial resistance: response of Research Councils UK, by Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation, Oct 22

Visit our antimicrobial resistance update page for additional information and links